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geordief
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- Trying to get the basics of Covectors into my head.
I understand that the Dual Space is composed of elements that linearly map the elements of the Vector Space onto Real numbers
If my preamble shows that I have understood correctly the basic premise, I have one or two questions that I am trying to work through.
So:
1: Is there a one to one correspondence between the elements of V and V* ? (Do the two sets have the same cardinality?)
2: Are the linear mappings that occur in V* all dot product relationships or are there different linear maps that accomplish the same end?
3: What actually distinguishes V from V* ? They are not identical sets are they?
If my preamble shows that I have understood correctly the basic premise, I have one or two questions that I am trying to work through.
So:
1: Is there a one to one correspondence between the elements of V and V* ? (Do the two sets have the same cardinality?)
2: Are the linear mappings that occur in V* all dot product relationships or are there different linear maps that accomplish the same end?
3: What actually distinguishes V from V* ? They are not identical sets are they?